Unofficial installer for Speedtest® CLI on macOS

Ookla® Speedtest® CLI installer for macOS without homebrew.
Official-Project: https://www.speedtest.net/de/apps/cli

• Tested on:
  • macOS 10.15.7 (Catalina)

->> The easiest way to install the $ speedtest command is, to download and install the .pkg file.

-> Otherwise you can follow the instructions for a manual installation

Overview

• Installation
• Allow unidentified developer
• Usage
• Uninstall

Manual installation

• Open the Terminal Application from /System/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
• Download the .zip package to your Download folder and unzip there.
• It is important to go into the downloaded folder:

  $ cd ~/Downloads/macOS_CLI_Speedtest-main
  

• Check your current path with $ pwd, it hast to be: /Users/<USERNAME>/Downloads/macOS_CLI_Speedtest-main

  $ pwd
  

• Start the installation with $ sudo and the sh command:

  $ sudo sh installer.sh
  

• Now you can run the $ speedtest command in the Terminal

  $ speedtest
  

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After your first run of the $ speedtest command, you will get an error message like this:

• So you need to cancel this error message and got to your System Preferences.

  $ open /System/Applications/System\ Preferences.app
  

Go to Security tab and click Open Anyway if you're not an administrator, you need to open the lock in left corner.

That's it! Now you can run the $ speedtest command in your CLI.

Usage

speedtest® by Ookla® is the official command line client for testing the speed and performance of your internet connection.

Version: speedtest 1.0.0.2

Usage: speedtest [<options>]
  -h, --help                        Print usage information
  -V, --version                     Print version number
  -L, --servers                     List nearest servers
  -s, --server-id=#                 Specify a server from the server list using its id
  -I, --interface=ARG               Attempt to bind to the specified interface when connecting to servers
  -i, --ip=ARG                      Attempt to bind to the specified IP address when connecting to servers
  -o, --host=ARG                    Specify a server, from the server list, using its host's fully qualified domain name
  -p, --progress=yes|no             Enable or disable progress bar (Note: only available for 'human-readable'
                                    or 'json' and defaults to yes when interactive)
  -P, --precision=#                 Number of decimals to use (0-8, default=2)
  -f, --format=ARG                  Output format (see below for valid formats)
  -u, --unit[=ARG]                  Output unit for displaying speeds (Note: this is only applicable
                                    for ‘human-readable’ output format and the default unit is Mbps)
  -a                                Shortcut for [-u auto-decimal-bits]
  -A                                Shortcut for [-u auto-decimal-bytes]
  -b                                Shortcut for [-u auto-binary-bits]
  -B                                Shortcut for [-u auto-binary-bytes]
      --selection-details           Show server selection details
      --ca-certificate=ARG          CA Certificate bundle path
  -v                                Logging verbosity. Specify multiple times for higher verbosity
      --output-header               Show output header for CSV and TSV formats

 Valid output formats: human-readable (default), csv, tsv, json, jsonl, json-pretty

 Machine readable formats (csv, tsv, json, jsonl, json-pretty) use bytes as the unit of measure with max precision

 Valid units for [-u] flag:
   Decimal prefix, bits per second:  bps, kbps, Mbps, Gbps
   Decimal prefix, bytes per second: B/s, kB/s, MB/s, GB/s
   Binary prefix, bits per second:   kibps, Mibps, Gibps
   Binary prefix, bytes per second:  kiB/s, MiB/s, GiB/s
   Auto-scaled prefix: auto-binary-bits, auto-binary-bytes, auto-decimal-bits, auto-decimal-bytes

Uninstall

To uninstall the speedtest just run:

$ sudo rm -r /usr/local/Cellar/speedtest /usr/local/bin/speedtest

Developer Software Informations

All Informations like:

• Copyright Notices
• Terms of Use and Privacy Policy Notice
• Third-Party Products/Libraries
• Release Notes
• Disclaimer

and more are in this FILE

Contributor

• Original CLI Software from: Speedtest® by Ookla®
  https://www.speedtest.net/de/apps/cli
• Installer script by zensudo